Drain table



April 28; 1925. r 1,535,928

D. LOUDON DRAIN TABLE Filed Aug. 15, 1923 Z5 A INVENTOR DOPE FLOU ON "1ATTORNEY 1 following is afull, clear, and exact descrip- Patented Apr.28, 1925.

UNITED STATES DORR F. LOUDON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DRAIN TABLE.

Application filed August 15, 1923. Serial N'o. 657,642.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, Donn F. Lounon, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the countyof New York and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedDrain Table,.of which the tion.

) This invention relates to drain tables, and more particularly aims toprovide an improved drain table over that disclosed in U.

S. Letters Patent to me, No. 1,323,078..

An object of the invention is to .provide an improved constructioncapable of use with a combined wash tub and sink, the parts being soformed that the drain table may be used either as a right or left table.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a drain table which mayreadily'fit in position on a wash tub forming part of the sink, thestructure being such as to fit the various rolled or curved edges insuch a manner as to permit gravity to hold the parts in correctposition.

In said drawing,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing said embodiment applied toa-high-back combination sink and Washtub fixture;

Fig. 2eis a bottom plan view, on an enlarged scale, of said embodiment;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view, on still a further enlarged scale thanthat of Fig. 2, being a vertical sectional view taken on the line 33 ofFig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary perspective view on an enlarged-scale of acorner of the embodiment, looking down on the same when arrangedright-side-up.

As is familiar in the plumbing art, the fixture of Fig. 1 includes asink unit 5, a tub unit 6, a high-back 7, and a transverse web orpartition 8 between tub and sink. As is also well-known, the verticalwall 9 of the tub unit at an end of the fixture has an upwardly flaredshoulder portion 10 which merges with the high-back 7.

The drain table 20 is preferably made of a single piece of sheet metalpressed into shape, the same being reduced in width laterally at one endto provide a flat integral spout 21 in prolongation of the elongaterectangular main body of the table.

The table 20 is preferably provided with a raised marginal portion 22extending in unbroken continuity all around the device from one side ofthe spout mouth to the other, and also has a depending marginal flange23 of unbroken continuity all around the device except at the cornersthereof farthest removed from the spout. These corners are marked C andC in Fig. 2,"

the unbroken continuity of the raised margin 22 from one side of thespout mouth to the other as above pointed out, such raised margin wouldeffectually brace the device at the corners C'and C were flange 23entirely removed at such corners.

The break or cut-away portion 24 permits the corners of the drain-boardto slightly overlap the rolled edge 3 of the tub while allowing theflanges to fit within the tub whereby the drainboa'rd cannot slide offof the tub. The purpose of this construction is to make the device whenequipped with the bufier-blocks 25 capable of fitting a right or lefthand tub structure and in that sense reversible so as to direct thewater either to the right or left. By providing the cut-out portion 24at the corners, the blocks 25 may properly engage the rolled edge of thetub while part .of the board overlaps the edge and in that way acts asholding means for holding the board in place when placed as shown inFigure 1 or when used on the opposite side of the tub. Such two typesdiffer only in that in the case of the one of them difi'erent from theone shown in Fig. 1, the sink-unit 5 and the tub unit 6 are reversed inposition, that is, the sink unit is to the right of the tub unit ratherthan to the left thereof as shown in said Fig. 1. ,Both of such types ofcombination fixture of course have the intermediate vertical dividingwall 8. As the device is associated with a combination fixture of thetype shown in Fig. 1, the break in continuity of the flange 23 at thecorner C is the only one which is so positioned as to act as aclear-away gate for the shoulder 10 illustrated. But in a combinationfixture where the sink unit 5 is to the right of the tub unit 6, theshoulder to be cleared would be at a location corresponding tothatmarked 10 in Fig. 1; and in the case of such a fixture, and theapplication of the device thereto, the break in the continuity of theflange 23 at corner C would be required, to serve as a clear-way gatefor the shoulder last mentioned. Hence, as the present invention ispreferably embodied, flange 23 has its continuity broken at both thecorners C and C; as illustrated and as has been described.

In order to provide such a reversible device, a plurality of the spacedbuffer-blocks 25 are provided and secured under the device and behindthe flange 23 at points removed from the aforesaid breaks in thecontinuity of the flange. A plurality of such blocks are mounted as justdescribed,

. not only at opposite ends of the device, but

at the inner and outer sides thereof; so that irrespective of which typeof combination fixture the device is associated with, the blocks at bothends of the device and the blocks at one side of the device will alwaysrest by gravity on the top of the roll-rim surrounding the sink unit atits three sides comprising the wall 9, the wall 9*, and the party-wall8.

Referring now particularly to Fig. 3, it will be seen that each of theidentically similar blocks 25 is shaped at its upper portion to presenta shoulder 25' for snug reception by the groove on the inside of thedevice established by the presence of the raised margin 22; such groovebeing marked 26 in Fig. 2. As a result of this construction, each blockmay be non-vibratably secured in place absolutely by the use for eachblock of a single bolt 27 piercing the marginal flange and said block.

As also seen best in Fig. 3, each of said blocks 25 is further speciallyshaped at its bottom to present a surface 25 downwardly inclined awayfrom the flange, in the present case such surface being concavely curvedto match the convex lateral curvature of the roll-rim of each of thewalls 9, 9 and 8. By this construction, the device may be set on the tubunit of either type of combination fixture so that the long side thereofnearest high-back 7 may lie tight against the high-back (despite thepresence of the blocks 25 at that side of the device), and yet thedevice, resting on the tub unit solely by gravity, may not be shifted inany direction in its own plane.

The upper face of the device is desirably provided with longitudinalribs and grooves 28 for draining said grooves, converging toward eachother and toward the spout mouth.

I claim:

1. A removable drainboard for wash tubs, comprising a central drainmember merging into two side flanges and an end flange, said side andend flanges being reduced in depth at their junctures, said reducedportion extending an appreciable distance from the point of juncturetoward the opposite end of the respective flanges, and a plurality ofblocks removably secured to the flanges of the drainboard, each blockhaving a curved contact face to rest properly on the rolled rim of aWashtub and act to hold the drainboard in position and against slidingon said tub.

2. A removable drain board for wash tubs, comprising a body having araised rim portion from which project downwardly extending flanges,forming with the raised rim portion a groove in the under face of theboard, and a plurality of bufi'er blocks detachably secured to theflanges of the board, eaclr block having on its upper face a shoulderforming a projection fitting in the groove of the board and having theouter portion of its lower face curved to fit upon a rolled rim of thewash tub to hold the said board thereon.

DORR F. LOUDON.

